Sergio Garcia tames the elements to end his waiting game with biggest win

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At last! Sergio García ended a three-year drought by winning The Players Championship on a wild and windy day in northeast Florida. It was the biggest victory of the 28-year-old Spaniard’s career and a reminder that he had lost the Open in a play-off last July. It was also fair reward for the imperiousness of his driving and a pat on the back for the new putting stroke he has been working on with Stan Utley, the renowned short-game coach.

It took a one-hole sudden-death play-off for García to beat an American journeyman, Paul Goydos, 43, who had led by